News Archives

Dec 07, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Medical center adds third surgical robot

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   East Carolina University physicians showed off their newest surgical robot and touted its benefits to patients and the wider eastern North Carolina community Thursday. The...

Dec 07, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Bowles to address ECU commencement Dec. 16

GREENVILLE, NC —   Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina system, will be the featured speaker at East Carolina University’s fall commencement of Dec. 16. The ceremony...

Dec 01, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU political scientist examines jihad in new book

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The emergence of jihad as a war strategy and its effects on global stability is the focus of a new book written by an East Carolina...

Nov 28, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Nurse anesthetist program accredited at ECU

GREENVILLE  —   The nurse anesthesia program at the East Carolina University School of Nursing has received a 10-year accreditation. The Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs granted...

Nov 27, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU Police to undergo national accreditation

GREENVILLE, NC   —   The East Carolina University Police Department is scheduled for an on-site assessment in December as part of the department’s effort to achieve national accreditation through...

Nov 27, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU Reinstates Office of the Dean of Students

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The Office of the Dean of Students in the Division of Student Life has returned to East Carolina University after a six-year hiatus. Led by associate...

Nov 15, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Frances Joyner Monk gift to fund new geriatric center

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   A $2.5 million gift from a local family will help build a new geriatric center at East Carolina University. The gift by the late Frances Joyner...

Nov 14, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU announces changes to enhance effectiveness

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   East Carolina University Chancellor Steve Ballard has announced leadership changes designed to strengthen the university's research and fund-raising capabilities and to more aggressively realize several opportunities...

Nov 03, 2006
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Seven projects receive $172,500 in Brody Brothers Foundation Endowment research grants

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Seven research projects led by faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have received grants from the Brody Brothers Foundation Endowment Fund...

Oct 24, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU to bring tech ed to schools with NSF grant

GREENVILLE, NC  —   A $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable East Carolina University to help public school teachers prepare students for careers in technology, science,...